John Bechtol writes: "Speaking poorly of a voluntary trade, is the foundation of its prohibition. Any pretense otherwise is no more than thinly-veiled hostility seeking a collective remedy and we all know the horrors of such remedies. Since when is OK to denounce the practice of commercial affection but it is NOT OK to denounce the practice of criticizing the commercial affection? Somehow now there are two people who want to shut me up for my opinions."
Nonsense!
Here's an analogy... Many years ago, my sister -- pregnant with her first child -- joyfully described the feeling of "the baby kicking around" inside her. Knowing she was a feminist, I asked her -- in light of her feelings at that moment -- whether she could imagine ever having an abortion, and how those feelings might affect her views on the entire subject. Without hesitation, she answered, "Are you crazy? NEVER! I just don't need some politician making that decision for me, or telling me what to do."
In other words, "speaking poorly" is NOT tantamount to "seeking a collective remedy," let alone to the horrors of the latter. So much for that scurrilous innuendo!
What next? Trigger warnings? John's approach bears an uncanny resemblance to the selective grievance-mongering of the left -- for that matter, even to the Leninist suppression of "counterrevolutionary" speech (LOL)!
My criticisms are a far cry from John's blanket condemnation of my views as "unacceptable" -- at that, after (at this point, deliberately) mischaracterizing them as statist.
No one's trying to shut you up, John. You're entitled to your opinions, and you're entitled to state them.
You don't get to misrepresent my views, or to stifle their expression as "politically incorrect" -- not without being called out for attempting to do so.
---In lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com, <javlin@...> wrote :
Holy crap! Since when is OK to denounce the practice of commercial affection but it is NOT OK to denounce the practice of criticizing the commercial affection?
Somehow now there are two people who want to shut me up for my opinions or start a place to denounce whatever, without unwanted opinion! WTF?